I just installed zenphoto via the oneclick install, and only have one question. Where the heck did it install it / where the heck are my albums stored?

I really wanted to ftp my albums, but I can't seem to track down where the zenphoto album folder is, in fact, I'm pretty sure it isn't accessible via ftp / ssh.

Doing an initial drop of many albums via http could take weeks ( slow dsl + a few photos at a time = excruciating), oh please tell me that I am just blind and I can ftp them in ( ftp + overnight = painless).

I just installed zenphoto via the oneclick install, and only have one question. Where the heck did it install it / where the heck are my albums stored?

I don't know. I suspect the "easy" once-click installer probably put it in the same place it puts the files for the "easy" WordPRess once-click install - "somewhere deep in the bowels of DreamHost". I don't know where your pictures are either.

I really wanted to ftp my albums, but I can't seem to track down where the zenphoto album folder is, in fact, I'm pretty sure it isn't accessible via ftp / ssh.

I think you are right about that.

Doing an initial drop of many albums via http could take weeks ( slow dsl + a few photos at a time = excruciating), oh please tell me that I am just blind and I can ftp them in ( ftp + overnight = painless).

If they ever change it so that we can access the oneclick album folder via the cli, I can always just move my albums to the oneclick then. I'm pretty lazy afterall, and having less software to upgrade sounds peachy

Thinking about this "Right now, the only way to upload pictures to it is via a web-based uploader"....

In that beastly Gallery program I use a web-based uploader, but it allows me to "upload" from a directory on the web server. I'm not sure that is ruled out by the wording in the newsletter, which mentions quite different things as missing: email and XP picture publisher (am I missing something or does that refer to Corel $oftware on a specific version of Micro$oft OS?)

There's a long discussion on the zenphoto site about problems with installation on Dreamhost. It starts with a slightly different version of the installation instruction on the DH wiki, and most of it is over my head but I do get the picture that the very simple installation instructions on the zp site won't work here, principally because of the database being on a different machine from the web server.

If the one-click works reasonably well I think it will save a lot of trouble for anyone like me who knows little about mysql and php configuration.

All you then need to do is set up a database from the DreamHost MySQL section of the control panel.

Choosing a database name,a hostname,username,password.

When that is completed paste the information into the zenphoto setup page you left open and click save.

You will then be asked for an admin user and password to administer your zenphotos site. Save that information and you will be at the Zenphoto admin login page where you can administer and upload your photos as per the DreamHost easyonestopnomessingaboutclick option.

You can also ftp your images to the albums you create. The path is ftp://example.com/zenphoto/albums/whatever_the_album_is_called/

I've only spent a bit of time on this so far, but what I have done has been completely hassle free, like you said. I used the upload interface first time and uploaded a picture. Next time I used ftp, and when I went back to the album from the picture, it updated to show both. Then I ftp'd a zip file and expected the pics to show (I must have misunderstood something, or perhaps I need to tweak some settings - I thought zenphoto would get the pics from a zip file) but they didn't. So I went to webftp and was pleased to find I can unzip files there. Did so, but the album didn't update until I reloaded in the browser. Seems inconsistent but not a problem.

Off-topic re ftp: When I uploaded the installation zip file via Konqueror, I told Konqueror to 'unzip here', thinking it would use unzip on the remote server if available, but it remembered where the local copy was, unzipped it, and uploaded the files. That's why I was glad to find unzip in webftp.

Followed your instructions Norm but it seems some of the links in the Administration pages don't have the form of mywebsite/zenphoto/zp-core... but have mywebsite/zp-core... so then I get an error message. Did I do the setup incorrectly?

So you have version 1.1.5 from zenphoto.org?Have you (or DreamWeaver) changed the .htacces file at all so that the rewrite has changed.

You could try changing the RewriteBase to your full URL or perhaps first try editing the zp-config.php in zp-core. At the end of the file are the path overrides. Try uncommenting the two lines as indicated and see if that helps.